After he was scratched in two of the team's first three games, he told reporters earlier this week that he hadn't played to his standards.

“I wasn't very happy with the way I played, but I wasn't too bad, either," he said. "I definitely wanted to have a fresh start for the regular season and definitely the team's start and my personal start haven't gone as I expected. But there's still lots of games to be played. I'm not putting my head down.”

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